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Mon, Aug 03, 2009

Tomatoes

Posted at 11:27 pm MDT to Garden

I bought a small tomato plant at the farmers' market on Saturday.

It isn't actually in the ground yet. The planter box is assembled and filled with dirt, but I need to soak the planting mix once more, thoroughly, before i put the plants into the squares. And the ones that came out of green houses need another days of partial sun before they move out into full sun conditions. I may actually plant things tomorrow.

But I have eaten three golf-ball-sized vine-ripened tomatoes from my very own tomato plant.

Other plants waiting to go into the square foot garden include:

sage
rosemary
marjoram
oregano
portulacas
chrysanthemum
marigold
summer squash (already flowering, like the tomato plant)
iceplant (a flowering ground-cover)

I also have garlic cloves to plant, and seeds for fall crops of carrots and parsley, and thyme. And Nanette has promised me some pea seeds (which she buys by the pound) and onion starts.

Besides the grapevine...

Some of these plants will move into other beds, once I have other beds to move them to. In the mean time, it's nice to have some herbs and flowers.

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